Legal Discovery Challenges

An e-mail systems archive is fully searchable, greatly simplifying the e-discovery process. Let’s assume that a lawsuit is pending and all e-mails connected with a particular client are being reviewed, by your lawyers, the opposing party’s lawyers, or both. What can take months of billable hours by a team of lawyers and IT professionals can literally take minutes through a keyword search of an e-mail archive. In this scenario, three outcomes are possible:

  1. Bad news – a “smoking gun” e-mail, IM, or user file is found that implicates the company or confirms its guilt.
  2. Good news – an e-mail, IM, or user file is found that proves the company is innocent of wrongdoing in the case.
  3. No news – no confirmation of guilt or innocence is found.

In all three outcomes, early knowledge is key. If bad news is indeed uncovered, it’s to the company’s advantage to know this early on. Often the strategy is to settle on the case, thereby saving on legal fees. If good news is the result, this can quickly be shared with legal advisors for the opposition, who may opt to end the lawsuit. If no critical information is found, the company can proceed as necessary, secure in the knowledge that there will be no hidden surprises along the way.

Jatheon's Plug n Comply™ family of archiving appliances provide best in class e-mail archiving & regulatory compliance for Exchange, Lotus Notes, GroupWise, Kiero and SMTP, enabling organizations to meet their growing litigation, compliance, and corporate governance obligations. Jatheon's simplified approach to archiving allows Compliance Officers or users a search interface for e-mail or instant messages which simplifies electronic retrieval, classification, review, legal hold's, policy management and legal document production. Jatheon provides a proven e-mail archiving solutions for compliance with SEC, FINRA ( NASD / NYSE), HIPAA, FRCP, FERC & Sarbanes Oxley regulations. Jatheon's appliances can be used in the financial services, government, education, health sciences, as well as many other industries.

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